object to eating your dinner off it." "No doubt you would, Mrs. Peters," Mrs. Twistle murmured. "But the fact remains that I saw the marks with my own eyes, as distinct as they was, no doubt, on the day when the pore soul was struck down." N EEDLES were suspended while the circle gave its heavily breath- ing attention to the tragedy. Mrs. Dog- berry, who was deaf but had somehow had the facts communicated to her in a series of piercing whispers by her neigh- bors, suddenly shouted, "\Vhat made Dean bash her, Mrs. T wistle ? " With a meaning glance at Mrs. Lovelace's unmarried daughter, who was sitting with her mouth open, Mrs. Twistle replied, "Some say one thing and some another, Mrs. Dogberry." There was a pause, broken by a wild giggle from Elsie Lovelace, whose risible faculties were frequently out of can trol. Her mother sighed. "What a shocking thing!" she said. "I've heard of Dean Swift, now you mention it. A . , h ?" wrIter, wasn t e. "Ow, writers! " cried Mrs. Peters, as though she lumped the profession with the Druids in one disreputable whole. "I believe that he wrote the lady let- ters," Mrs. Twistle whispered. "Beau- tiful letters, hundreds and hundreds of them. I fancy they was printed in a book. It does seem sad that after all that the gentleman should have yielded to such a horrid impulse." "Ow, well, perhaps the pore man got tired of waiting for an answer," Mrs. Peters said, and snickered. "I re- member Daddy used to get wild with me"-the party understood that she was referring to Mr. Peters and not to her paternal ancestor-"when I was away in service before we were married and he didn't have his weekly letter. I sup- pose he used to wonder if I wasn't lark- ing with some other boy. Pore Daddy." Resisting the impulse to dwell on the vision of Mrs. Peters nubile and larking, Mrs. Ramsay felt that the moment had come to stir from the dreamy trance in which she had been listening and stitching on buttons. "I think you must be confusing Dean Swift with some- I ' M T . I "'" one ese, aren t you, rs. WISt e r she said. "He certainly wrote letters to someone called Stella, and she certainly died fairly young, but I'm afraid" -she smiled apologetically round the table- "I'm afraid quite naturally." The faces of the sewipg party ex- pressed a struggle between their de- sire to believe Mrs. Ramsay, who was held to be a model of elegant culture .. ..; ,. , . .I1!J , . II \111 . ;I :'" /J 'rt , .' If . ':" ' .' .'. /:' . =.. -.... :: :,:: '. " ..: ... :"!-.- . I ! ... I ':: "-' " \ \ ) "\ . t .;::" - g :;Î); 67 "'-- } -- í.l /L ,- ,,,(.. \ , , , ' \ I _i J -;:::=:--.;. - - --- . . ! ' :-; ;. - :; - --- - \ .- - - - - , -- - - -------=. ,f I' -:;... - -.... :::' f _---:-- .:.:.- :.:':. ... -==-..:: ..- - _ - 0('- ..:._- - ""'C; - .: :: :-- . -- . (. -:: '....... - ''-, . .... , \\ ',\ One Name the Whole World Knows! \ \ V \\ , When you realize that anywhere in the world the name GILBEY'S" will always get you a great gin drink, you begin to appreciate how superlatively good this cele- brated gin must be! For it takes a great gin 10 win and hold the loyalty of the whole, wide world for generation after generation. See what a difference that name "Gilbey's" will make in your drinks here in America! :.... -:--- - " , -- -:.. -,_wi' ç;:.. --- - - - --- , GIN THE " INTERNATIONAL GIN " DISTILLED BY GILBEY IN THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS IN ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA, AND CANADA National Distillers Products Corp., N. Y. - 90 Proof - Distilled from 100% grain neutral spirits \; GILBEYS r , I ,